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SAS & IBM

The SAS and IBM alliance builds on a complementary 40-year partnership and helps create new avenues for delivering and implementing joint solutions to customers. IBM offers unmatched expertise in hardware and middleware technology along with the services of a Systems Integrator. SAS provides today's most advanced analytics solutions and unrivaled technical domain expertise. Together, SAS and IBM align to help customers solve their toughest business challenges.

IBM Systems Group provides clients with infrastructure technologies that optimize SAS software. SAS and IBM are enabled on a range of IBM systems designed to address capacity, security, speed and compute power needs for businesses. IBM's portfolio includes System z (Mainframe z/OS), a secure enterprise platform for integrating data, transactions and insight, and Power Systems, a system designed from the ground up for big data, optimized for scale-out cloud, AIX and Linux. IBM also offers data storage products and solutions that allow clients to retain and manage growing, complex volumes of digital information. These solutions address SAS hardware requirements for maximizing SAS' performance. Additionally, IBM Software-Defined Infrastructure products integrated with SASGrid Manager technology drive customer benefits around workload balancing, high availability and scalable faster processing.

IBM Information Management segment includes technology enablement and drives incremental SAS sales with IBM® PureData™ System for Analytics powered by Netezza, as well as IBM® BigInsights™ hadoop distribution.

IBM Global Financing (IGF) makes it easy to budget for and acquire SAS software. Financing SAS can help you stay within your budget by turning upfront costs into affordable monthly payments. You can control expenses, match cashflow to business benefits, and conserve cash for other strategic investments. IGF allows you to finance SAS over multiple years, as a standalone or part of a complete software/hardware solution.

About IBM

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM®) provides worldwide IT products and services across most industries. The company offers a variety of powerful solutions in analytics, cloud, cognitive computing, as well as solutions for digital commerce, mobile, IoT, social and data security, among others.